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Re: Patent status of SRP, SPEKE, etc.?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Wu)
Tue Oct 24 21:52:11 2000
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:30:13 -0700
From: Tom Wu <tom@arcot.com>
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To: Radia Perlman - Boston Center for Networking <Radia.Perlman@East.Sun.COM>
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SRP is free for both commercial and non-commercial use. We've gone
through the prior art, and we're now pretty sure that SRP is clear of
any of the existing IP claims and software patents that encumber other
forms of this technology.
Tom
Radia Perlman - Boston Center for Networking wrote:
>
> About SRP:
>
> 1) is it also royalty free for commercial use? I'd heard it
> was for "noncommercial use"
>
> 2) even though RSP might be free, has anyone verified that SRP
> doesn't infringe on EKE?
>
> Radia
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Tom Wu
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Arcot Systems
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